All tagged Kara Cooney
This year's theme for IWD is #BreakTheBias, supporting the dismantling of deliberate and unconscious biases perpetuated within our society towards women. Are you looking for some inspiration to smash that glass ceiling & fire up your inner advocate? Well we’ve got more than a few role models for you this season.
Egyptologist, archaeologist, associate professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Language and Cultures at UCLA, Dr. Kara Cooney has spent her academic career exploring the history of female power. Looking as far back as our hunter-gatherer roots, to early agricultural society, to ancient Egypt and now the modern-day, Dr. Cooney brings one question to the forefront: Why are we as human beings so hostile to female power? Why do we think we’re not? And, when we do acknowledge it, why do we think it’s ok?
Egyptologist, archaeologist, associate professor of Egyptian Art and Architecture and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Language and Cultures at UCLA, Dr. Kara Cooney has spent her academic career exploring the history of female power. Dr. Cooney brings one question to the forefront. Why are we as human beings so hostile to female power? Why do we think we’re not? Or why do we think it’s ok?
